March 2011
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Claes Oldenburg to Andy Warhol to Keith Haring to...
In 1961 sculptor Claes Oldenburg became a storekeeper, opening “The Store” in New York City as a location where people could purchase his works just as they would household products. In 1968 Andy Warhol moved from his eminent Silver Factory to a new location at 33 Union Square West, New York City, intending to transition from the colorful prints that had made him famous, to a business-centric...
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“Within the art scheme, oneʼs work must have a critical component to be popular....”
– Takashi Murakami
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“I don’t think the problems facing literature are within literature. I think that...”
– The Future of Reading (Hint: It’s Not All Bad) - Heather Horn - Culture - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
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Walk Again Project
Walk Again is a multinational collaborative effort to free paralyzed patients from the confines of their physical bodies through breakthroughs in neuroscience. Led by the Duke Center for Neuroengineering, Walk Again is developing a high performance brain-controlled prosthetic device that enables patients to finally leave the wheelchair behind.
Over the past decade, neuroscientists at the...
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“So there is an exit strategy. We turned over the mission to NATO. Man I feel...”
– Jon Stewart - Daily Show 3.29.2011
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“Asking whether large solar power plants are appropriate in the Mojave desert is...”
– Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lays out a case for putting solar farms in the Mojave as part of a policy based on improving public health, boosting the economy, and avoiding the risks of the fossil economy.
Read more at The Atlantic
(via theatlantic)
And would the building of these plants...
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Pulse Power: New Nanogenerator Will One Day Create... →
A team of scientists has perfectedthe first practical nanoscale power generator, capable of generating useable electrical current from a mere squeeze of your fingers. In the future it’ll be able to draw power from your pulse.
The search for tiny power generator technology has slowly inched forward for years for good reason—there are a trillion medical and surveillance...
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Stagnation or inequality Has the American economy... →
If America’s past was not as impressive as it seemed, its future is even more troubled. Mr Cowen argues that there is a dwindling supply of “low-hanging fruit”: opportunities for fast development that cannot easily be repeated. The plentiful supply of land once available to settlers moving west is one example. Educational gains are another. In 1900 many of America’s best minds were to be found...
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The Beautiful Photography of the Sartorialist
Always leave the site (The Sartorialist) feeling a little inspired and a bit like I just walked into a single room of a museum exhibition. The images feel so honest and the diversity of color, setting, and subjects keeps things unpredictable. It really is a brilliant site.
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Revolutionology: A UC Berkeley sociology student... →
theatlantic:
abudai:
It’s actually an interesting read:
Every free-speaking person in Libya (presumably with the exception of regime supporters, whom I’m unlikely to be able to interview) has stories to tell about the Qaddafi regime’s restriction of civil liberties.
For example, people are sick of being nervous about what they can and can’t say. “When I was a little boy,” a 31-year-old...
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“We’re delighted when people who can’t afford our books don’t pay us for them, if...”
– Tim O’Reilly on removing anti-piracy measures from his e-books from an interview where he also discusses tinkering, and the future of the book. (via poptech)
Finally someone from the publishing world is speaking with some common sense about this issue. Embracing the concept of distributed...
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“Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the...”
– Paul Rand (via jonathanmoore)
Is design also the foundation for all intellectual and industrious activity?
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“A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city...”
– Tom Ford’s rules for gentlemen (via bbook)
Thank you, Tom. I feel vindicated.
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David Karp on Steve Jobs, Willy Wonka and “Making Money Off Tumblr Would Be Incredibly Easy”
Interesting interview and insight into what incentivizes the Tumblr founders to do what they do and how principles of shared value are changing business. Mr. Karp is a remarkably humble visionary.
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Dolce and Gabbana May Face a Criminal Trial for... →
But now the celebrity duo, caught up in a major tax evasion investigation, are facing a less welcome form of attention. Accused of defrauding the Italian revenue agency and failing to pay taxes on more than $1 billion in income, they are expected to be told Friday by a judge in Milan whether prosecutors have gathered enough evidence to warrant a criminal trial.
So far, the case has generated...
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“There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes...”
– Dave Grohl (via Billboard)
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CHART OF THE DAY: The Government Money That Built...
(via Silicon Alley Insider and Business Insider)
Interesting chart. A couple questions:
Has government funded research as a percentage of GDP declined across all categories similarly over the same period?
If so, where has that money been directed since there has not been a general decline in government spending?
If not, then what type of research are government funds being directed...
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“Through brand focused “like”/”fan” pages Facebook is...”
– J N O M I C S
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“Steve Jobs isn’t just a great businessman, he’s also the prototypical Apple...”
– Sohrab Vossoughi in Fast Company.
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Fri Fashion - Stussy x Fred Perry
arthangover:
Stussy x Fred Perry
A really appealing collaboration. Beautiful work.
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Let the Games Begin (via Artnews)
Artists are designing or adapting video games to comment on politics, art, and games themselve
The first video game was invented exactly 50 years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was called Spacewar I and ran on a computer the size of a refrigerator. Since then, video games have become a global economic staple (to the tune of $20 billion a year) and a well-mined source...
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Making Cells on an Assembly Line: A chip-based...
Researchers have developed a way to create uniformly sized cell membranes, small cellular packages that can be used like tiny terrariums to study the inner workings of the cell and even create new molecules.
“This lets us start to look at reconstituting cellular systems in vitro in a controlled way in order to investigate how different components within a cell work.” (via MIT...
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“There are people who are like beacons, and I’m in the fortunate position...”
– Editor-in-chief of Vogue Ann Wintour explaining her network.
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“American CEOs are responsible for the competitiveness of their home country.”
– Jeff Immelt: CEO, GE
Interesting thought.
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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease...”
– Oscar Wilde (via theonlymagicleftisart)
Remix: “No great innovator ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an innovator.”
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“Many academic fields are dependent on this cultural record, and its conversion...”
– The University of California gets to the heart of the Google Books issue in its official statement on yesterday’s decision. All these books have got to become digital objects, somehow, or they will cease to exist for all but the most dedicated future researchers. (via arlpolicynotes)
Truth.
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“L.A.’s on everybody’s mind right now, it’s a good time for these artists to come...”
– Art dealer Al Moron on the pull of LA for the art world, and the appropriation of the New York market to other geographic locations.
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“In a visual online world where “free speech” for a visual artist may...”
– Ray Dowd - Copyright Litigation Blog
Dowd’s blog is a fount of worthwhile opinion and information on the issues that are shaping intellectual property law and the creative industries it supports/protects.
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